The dead horse theory
I have found this old cartoon that made me laugh, it’s applicable to so many situations in life.
Strategy
Twitter as public and private company
An agreement to acquire Twitter has been reached, and there are so many comments about the final purpose Elon Musk has about this acquisition. I would try to draw a map with the main business model characteristics related to Twitter as public company and now as private company. The model drawn is very basic, and … Read more
Competitive services teams: they are brilliant people
Reasons to write about this Services are a key part of businesses, they cover a set of user needs but they are so much times managed as the last unit of the corporation. The communications and approaches we have with respect these areas are important, to keep them motivated and focused on their goals is … Read more
Why Wardley Maps are not so much popular?
This post is a set of reasons I think that made Wardley Maps are still not so much popular. Wardley Maps were formally published in 2005, so now in 2022 they are 17 years old. 1.- There is a map of mapping In chapter 7 of the original book from Simon Wardley, there is an … Read more
Professional basketball evolution
The basketball teams evolves from different stages going back and forth depending on so many variables and factors. To understand better the evolution of the teams, I’m going to define a set of stages where each team can mainly fit. This will make the teams to evolve from one stage to others. These moves are … Read more
Golden State Warriors value construction
Golden State Warriors during these years is very well known by the performance done in the Steph Curry era, the Splash Brothers, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Steve Kerr. But this is just part of the story. The changes in the franchise to reach this peak of performance started in 2010 when Peter Guber and … Read more
OODA loops in professional basketball
John Boyd is considered by many to be the greatest air combat theorist in history, and he is also the creator of the OODA (observe, guide, decide, act) loop. Boyd argued that if a fighter pilot rigorously goes through the OODA loop faster than his enemy, he will maximize the probability of beating the enemy … Read more
Organised Services Operating Model (OSOM)
The Organised Services Operating Model (OSOM) is a template operating model to help organisations adopt a service-based approach. More information here: https://osom.guide/ and here: https://stance.consulting/osom/ For questions related to that, you can be in touch with Steve Purkis: https://twitter.com/spurkis You can use it in any context, It uses Wardley Maps. It digs into the operational … Read more
Cuaderno de trabajo para dibujar estrategias
Este es un cuaderno de trabajo que he hecho para ordenar los conceptos básicos de los mapas de Wardley con un orden y detalle con el que se pueda trabajar a diario. A la hora aprender el detalle de los conceptos de los mapas me di cuenta que no había una guía sencilla que se … Read more
A review of Autodesk Inc., maps, numbers and evolution
I am writing this review of Autodesk Inc. focusing on a major milestone of the evolution of the company in the last recent years. I’m not Autodesk employee and I have never worked for them. I used AutoCAD when I was in college (when you were required to install with 11 floppy disks). This map … Read more